how to unpack the tarball?

[erice2]

I know how to compile it from scratch but I can't get into the file. I guess I don't know what a .bz2 file is? Can someone help? I have tried tar with just -xf and also tar with -x --gunzip -f but niether work.

[ieatacid]

is your friend

the answer is just a few posts below your's (here):

You need to make sure to untar the tarball into it's own directory. It should not be untarred over another directory.

So, yes. wipe your old showeq directory and untar.

Here's an example:


code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ cd ~
$ rm -fr showeq
$ tar xjvf ShowEQ-4.3.9.tar.bz2
$ cd showeq
$ make -f Makefile.dist
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
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Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[erice2]

That solved it. I did have it in its own directory and had wiped the previous one. I think using your switches is what did it. Sorry for making you answer something that had been answered but Im happy as its working.

thanks again.

[Circles]

funny you should mention it, but i just used KDE's visual file manager and opened it like a folder, then drug out the contents. it handled the decompression for me. (kde 3, mandrake 9.1)

[SeqTester]

I also downloaded and put the file where I wanted in KDE then right clicked and [Extract here...] and everything worked fine.